Review of Democracy

16/07/2024

🔙 What does it mean that there is a constant battle within democracies between principles of universal liberty, equality, and power-sharing; and the boys’ club logic?

🎙️ Erica Benner discussed it in our podcast 👇

In this conversation at the Review of Democracy, Erica Benner – author of the new book Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power – shows what a more self-critical and down-to-earth understanding of democracy would entail; discusses what it means that there is a constant battle...

15/07/2024

✍️ Even where the European Media Freedom Act makes great strides to improve media freedom and pluralism, there are caveats that must be considered, Jonathan Day (Civil Liberties Union for Europe) argues in our latest op-ed.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/bt2nbt7v

12/07/2024

✍️ In this op-ed, first published by DCU Dublin European Law Institute, Théo Fournier analyzes the French elections. 🇫🇷🗳️

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/3seyz2vw

10/07/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Zack Beauchamp discusses the specific kind of antidemocratic politics that emerges in countries with democratic institutions.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/22u2t56a

09/07/2024

🎙️ In this podcast, Silvia Márton discusses with Adrian-George Matus the multiple understandings of the concept “corruption” in the context of Central-South-East Europe.

🎧 Listen to it:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mup9m6vn

04/07/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Maciej Krogel discusses with Oliver Garner the intellectual sources of the EU’s response to the Rule of Law crisis in certain Member States.

🎧🧑‍💻 Listen to it or read the interview:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/msxa8a48

03/07/2024

✍️ In her op-ed, Lisa James analyzes tomorrow’s elections in the UK, and what we can expect form the next government. 🗳️🇬🇧

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/344h7esw

01/07/2024

📽️🔴 Follow our panel discussion with Political Capital (HU) and CEU Democracy Institute LIVE! 🇪🇺🗳️

🗣️ Laszlo Bruszt
🗣️ Peter Kreko
🗣️ Thu Nguyen
🗣️ Claudio Radaelli
🗣️ Flora Garamvolgyi

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01/07/2024

✍️ How the EU deals with a member state that breaks away from the principles of the rule of law is more important than criticizing the Orban government’s presidency in the EU Council, Thu Nguyen writes in her op-ed, originally published by Internationale Politik Quarterly. 🇭🇺🇪🇺

Read it:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/ynx8ecde

28/06/2024

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27/06/2024

Mark your calendar and join us, Political Capital (HU), and CEU Democracy Institute for this panel discussion! 🇪🇺🗳️

🗓️ July 1, 4pm CET
📍 Online on YouTube

🗣️ Laszlo Bruszt
🗣️ Peter Kreko
🗣️ Thu Nguyen
🗣️ Claudio Radaelli
🗣️ Flora Garamvolgyi

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26/06/2024

✍️ “Voicing opinions to explain political tensions from afar is contentious for those treated as mute subjects,” Venelin Ganev writes in his op-ed, first published by Eurozine.

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mtkfyhcy

25/06/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Gergő Medve-Bálint discusses the achievements and shortcomings of Hungary’s EU membership. 🇭🇺🇪🇺

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/nhedw7z7

24/06/2024

✍️🇸🇰 “The individual trauma caused by the shots fired in the small town of Handlová have brought about a trauma for the whole of Slovakia,” Samuel Abraham writes in his op-ed, first published by Eurozine.

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mpbfdusk

19/06/2024

✍️📖 “This book brings nuance to the discussion by underlining the fundamental role of steamboats in modernizing South-Eastern Europe,” Adrian George Matus writes in his review on Constantin Ardeleanu’s Steamboat Modernity.

Read it:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/kyt23zk6

18/06/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Michael S. Roth (President, Wesleyan University) explores the reasons behind the politicization of universities in the US, and sketches what “safe enough spaces” might look like in our turbulent times.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4z78fcva

17/06/2024

✍️ “Only a complexity approach can provide an adequate vehicle to pursue development interventions in this ‘brave new world’,” Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón writes in his op-ed.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/29btzd8d

13/06/2024

✍️ “Paradoxically, the 2024 EU elections might go down in history as shaping national politics more than the Union’s future direction,” Alberto Alemanno writes in his op-ed. 🇪🇺

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/7spsyrue

13/06/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, hosted by Kristof Szombati, Ho-fung Hung offers novel insights into the difficulties China’s political leadership is encountering in challenging US hegemony and extending its global sphere of influence.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/s3fjhnj6

12/06/2024

✍️ “Undermining democratic principles and overriding the rule of law with politically motivated actions are direct threats to European integration,” Maria Skora writes in her op-ed.

🧑‍💻 Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/ykhs7dc9

11/06/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Joshua Leifer analyzes the unraveling of the postwar American Jewish consensus and the reemergence of oppositional Jewish politics.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/2s3p6cf5

07/06/2024

👨‍🏫 In his lecture at the CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest, Polish Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar highlighted the most important challenges in rebuilding the Rule of Law in Poland.

🎧🧑‍💻 Listen to it as a podcast, or read Oliver Garner’s summary:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/2s3s2sx4

06/06/2024

✍️ In Bulgaria🇧🇬 and Romania🇷🇴, where EP elections coincide with national elections, interminable political instability, corruption and socioeconomic tensions all contribute to voter fatigue, Ioana Pelehatai and Svetoslav Todorov write in their op-ed, first published by Eurozine.

Read it:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/2w6hzy3h

05/06/2024

🇭🇺 In Hungary, Péter Magyar transformed into a political challenger enjoying the support of broad sections of the society.

✍️ In this op-ed, Andrea Szabó and Annamária Sebestyén share their insights into the reasons behind his success.

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mtunpv5m

04/06/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast, Jannis Panagiotidis and Hans-Christian Petersen show why racism is an appropriate category when discussing stereotypes and prejudices against East Europeans.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mke4e2dx

03/06/2024

✍️ In his op-ed, first published by The Loop, Giorgos Venizelos argues that we must look beyond populism's content or outcomes, and turn instead to its function of constructing collective identities.

🧑‍💻 Read now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/yc3sccrc

31/05/2024

🎙️ In our latest podcast hosted by Lorena Drakula, Yannis Stavrakakis discusses the past and future of populism research, and analyzes outdated stereotypes.

🎧🧑‍💻Listen to it now, or read the transcript:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/3m6tf5rm

30/05/2024

🎙️In our latest podcast, Mike Smeltzer (Freedom House) discusses what autocratizing hybrid regimes have in common and how autocracies help each other these days.

🎧 Listen to it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/58k4r3z6

29/05/2024

✍️ From migration to trade and energy, the EU’s partnerships with Mediterranean non-EU countries are influenced by a neocolonial mindset, Seden Anlar writes in her op-ed, first published on Eurozine.

Read it now:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/4zeuexuv

28/05/2024

Since the 2015 refugee crisis there has been an increasing ‘securitization’ of EU refugee law, exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

🎙️ In our latest podcast Aleksandra Ancite-Jepifánova discusses this with Oliver Garner.

🎧🧑‍💻 Listen to it or read the transcript:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/yc5mpa4n